"I mean," Zelda said, "That would be unlike him." Ari had not even explicitly told her to stop seeing Alfred when she told him about the sex, although Zelda knew he had probably been implying it. But it wasn't like Dio was doing that with Mr. Crouch. She was just writing. Telling him about Elliott, Zelda's perfect nephew (or — not-nephew) who giggled when she said Quidditch words at him, and who really deserved a less complicated life.

"Ari's a good man," Zelda said. Ari was a good man and he was also her brother, so she was biased, and there was no way she could tell Dio it was alright not to tell him. Because it wasn't — even if their marriage was unconsumnated, even if the situation was evidently weird, it wasn't okay not to tell Ari. "He deserves the truth."

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